February 12, 2021
Africa: Implementing the AfCFTA - The Need for Deepening Private Sector Engagement and Commitment
What: Joint webinar on the implementation of the AfCFTA within the WTO Aid-for-Trade Stocktaking Event 2021 Read more »
January 18, 2021
Africa: Africa Free Trade Agreement - President Adesina Receives Award for Strong Leadership and Support
African Development Bank President Akinwumi A. Adesina and 10 African Heads of State and Government were on Friday honoured for their leadership in the African Continental Free… Read more »
January 15, 2021
Africa: African Development Bank President, Ten African Heads of State to Be Awarded for Exceptional Contribution to the AfCFTA Process
What: AfDB President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina and ten African Heads of State to receive an award for contribution to AfCFTA Read more »
November 26, 2020
Africa: Put Small-Scale Traders At the Heart of Efforts to Accelerate Trade and Investment in Africa Post Covid-19
The AfCFTA will not in one dramatic swoop alter existing commercial and economic realities on a vast scale, but its implementation could lead the recovery efforts from the COVID-19… Read more »
November 11, 2020
Africa: AfCFTA - Covid-19 As a Catalyst for Accelerating Trade and Investment in Africa
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November 10, 2020
Africa: Indo-Africa Summit Panel Calls for Strong PPPs to Close Africa's Infrastructure Gap, Strengthen Trade
Panelists at the IMC Indo-Africa Summit called for stronger public-private partnerships to close Africa's infrastructure gap and speed up intra-continental and world trade. Read more »
November 06, 2020
Africa: Intra-Africa Trade in the Age of Covid-19
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October 12, 2020
Africa: Webinar "Pulse Check - Trade Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa During Covid-19"
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September 18, 2020
Africa: Africa Needs Urgent Trade Finance Boost in the Wake of Covid-19, Report Finds
There is an urgent need for financing to reenergize Africa's trade in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest trade finance report released jointly by the… Read more »
July 07, 2020
Tanzania: Tanzania - African Development Bank Project Tripled Incomes of Rural Producers and Traders
An African Development Bank project to enhance market infrastructure, value addition and rural finance (MIVARF) in Tanzania produced highly satisfactory results, according to a… Read more »
July 02, 2020
Africa: African Development Bank Joins WTO and Other Mdbs to Support Trade Finance Amid COVID-19 Crisis
The African Development Bank Group has joined the World Trade Organisation and other multilateral development banks to reduce trade finance gaps that emerge as a result of the… Read more »
May 27, 2020
Africa: COVID-19 Presents Unique Opportunities to Speed Up Africa's Integration Agenda and Implementation of AfCFTA
The Africa Regional Integration Index (ARII 2019), a new report jointly launched by the African Development Bank, UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Africa Union… Read more »
May 18, 2020
Africa: On Turkey-Africa Partnership Panel, Participants Discuss Trade and Stimulus to Cushion the Economic Fallout of COVID-19
African Development Bank Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery Khaled Sherif said trade and stimulus were needed to cushion the economic… Read more »
March 19, 2020
Africa: African Development Bank Renews Risk Participation Agreement for Trade Finance With Sumitomo Subsidiary
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank on Wednesday approved a $200 million Trade Finance Risk participation agreement (RPA) between Sumitomo Mitsui Banking… Read more »
February 07, 2020
Kenya: On the Kenya-Tanzania Border, the African Development Bank Eases Trade With One Stop Border Post
On the border between Tanzania and Kenya sits Namanga, a town of 16,000 residents where cross-border trade has thrived thanks to investment in a One Stop Border Post (OSBP). Read more »
February 03, 2020
Africa: Provide Young People With New Skills to Meet the Needs of a 21st Century Labor Market, African Development Bank Report Urges
"Youth must be prepared for the jobs of the future - not the jobs of the past," African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina said on Thursday at the launch of the Bank's… Read more »
January 23, 2020
Africa: African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina Opens Trading On London Stock Exchange
"My ringing of the bell here today, marks the beginning of a new exciting, strategic, and impactful engagement." - African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina Read more »
January 21, 2020
Africa: Ride the Wave of the African Continental Free Trade Area, African Development Bank President Adesina Urges UK Investors
Africa is on the cusp of unmatched economic transformation, and the UK must engage in a "partnership of change," African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina said Tuesday in… Read more »
January 17, 2020
Africa: African Development Bank's Akinwumi Adesina Heads to UK-Africa Investment Summit
New opportunities for bi-lateral trade and increasing UK investor appetite in Africa will be the main focus of the UK-Africa summit, convened by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on… Read more »
January 16, 2020
Togo: Trading Thrives As New Highway Financed By the African Development Bank Opens Up Northern Togo
Every Tuesday, Alemondji market in northern Togo swarms with people. Amid the throng, Burkinabe and Ghanaian traders offer clothes and kitchen utensils for sale. Others, calling… Read more »
December 06, 2019
Africa: African Development Bank President Wins All Africa Business Leaders Awards ™ 2019 African of the Year Award
To follow in the footsteps of my big brother President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, who won the award in 2018, is an honour beyond description - Akinwmi Adesina Read more »
December 05, 2019
Africa: ADF-15 Replenishment - Donors Commit $7.6 Billion, a 32 Percent Boost From Last Replenishment, in Support of Africa's Low-Income, Fragile, Countries
Donors of the African Development Fund (ADF) on Thursday agreed to commit $7.6 billion to speed up growth in Africa's poorest nations and help lift millions out of poverty. Read more »
November 18, 2019
Africa: Africa Investment Forum 2019 - African Development Bank Signs $250-Million Risk Participation Agreement With Absa, to Address Africa's Trade Financing Gap
The African Development Bank has signed an unfunded $250-million Risk Participation Agreement (RPA) facility with ABSA - a pan-Africa financial institution with a solid presence in… Read more »
October 23, 2019
Africa: African Development Bank Funds Angola Initiative to Improve Business Environment and Diversify Exports
L to R: Joohoon Kim, Chargé d' Affaires of the Republic of Korea in Angola; Moono Mupotola, the Bank's Director for Regional Development & Regional Integration; Joffre… Read more »
August 06, 2019
Africa: AU, African Development Bank Sign $4.8 Million Grant Earmarked for Continental Free Trade Secretariat
The African Development Bank Group on Monday signed a $4.8 million institutional support grant to the African Union (AU) for implementation of the African Continental Free Trade… Read more »